iwindsurf classic site is behaving very badly.

MULLDE102f · Joined: 15 Jun 1997 Posts: 131

"We pay HOW MUCH for this crap?"

I pay $160 a year for a service that almost always performs flawlessly, and saves me more than that in gas for sure.
Try going back to listening to the NOAA buoy reports to figure out if you should cut out on work to get to the beach. I think you'd be begging for iWindsurf back.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

airwave · Joined: 29 Jun 2000 Posts: 386

I've had various issues for over a year. Poorly updated tide charts, lost wind meter readings, links that require Java updates or links that need different browsers, etc. In most every case when I report or request info from the support team at iWindsurf I get told that they are no longer updating or improving the Classic site and insist that everything is fine on the non Classic site.

That may be true. The non Classic site may work properly. Except for one thing. The user interface for the non Classic site in my opinion is a mess. It is to "crowded", to busy, and is general poorly designed.

Maybe after spending some time using it I (we) could all get use to how it works and get use to navigating it. But why??? The Classic site is designed nicely. Though I am not an app designer I know enough about it to know that the non Classic system could be designed to work and act like the Classic interface. But for whatever reason Weatherflow just does not seem to want to provide that to its customers.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I just use WAP. Quicker, cleaner, leaner, simpler, and all the data I have any use for. Sure, my smart phone can access their full website, but it adds primarily clutter and unneeded bells, whistles, and a pretty face. I just want data; I'm not taking the damn thing to the prom.

ctuna · Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 1125 Location: Santa Cruz Ca

I am almost sorry I started this blog.
But the issues I was having kept coming up
over the period of the last three months.
I think this service is so valuable but when I keep
getting constant glitches sometimes just before I determine
if I am going its irritating.
The new site has some good stuff in it but its kind
of hard to navigate or maybe I am just to old to learn new
things.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

ctuna · Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 1125 Location: Santa Cruz Ca

You can set a lists of preferences in the new site
for area's you are interested in .
Use the favorites setup and there are more resources
but not as easy to get it in one keystroke.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I already have that on my cell phone.
myWind's present gusts, lulls, and average at a dozen sites of my choosing? One click, one second.
The wind at any site I choose, every 5 minutes for past 3 hours plus graph of same plus predicted wind the rest of the day? One click, one second.
Gradients and water temperature? One click, one second.
Forecasts from any of many sources, with weather maps if desired? One click, one second.
PRESENT current at The Wall? One click, one second.
NOAA products? One click, one second.
Radar and/or satellite, snapshot or moving? One click, two seconds.
Surface map of fronts, highs, lows? One click, three seconds.

And I can even make phone calls on it if I wish ... probably even to Banghladesh.

MULLDE102f · Joined: 15 Jun 1997 Posts: 131

Weatherflow claims that Isobars doesn't exist, despite his sixteen thousand(!) posts on their website.

Hey, Mike, maybe they've killfiled you so as to not have to listen to you spew on about a web page that you don't seem to understand how to work.

That's what you brag about doing yourself, right? If anyone calls you on your silliness, you just stick your fingers in your ears and say "la, la, la, you're killfiled, I can't hear you.

Sure couldn't blame them..

airwave · Joined: 29 Jun 2000 Posts: 386

When I am sitting at home reading the digital news and my email .... on my computer ... not my 2" wide cell phone, I would like to also check the wind in my area. Classic iW does this easily. I can also quickly check another location. Like when I want to travel to the Gorge or to the East Coast.

And yep, the new and improved version does it too....

As long as I do as ctuna stated:
"set a lists of preferences in the new site
for area's you are interested in .
Use the favorites setup and there are more resources "

I would prefer to use a simply and quick system. Like Classic iW. albeit a simple system like Classic iW that is actually properly updated in the background by the company that I pay for the service.

I would prefer not to use a more complex system that has maps in motion with the magic thumb/forefinger, or first/second digits, and better hope you dried and warmed your hands if just washed or if you grabbed a cold beer, otherwise the map takes you off into outer space, and an assortment of links you have to scroll through, or hidden links of your favorite places, just to get to the simple stuff.

I really do not subscribe to iWindsurf so that I can be up to date on the latest and greatest hyper, scroll, touch screen, multi app access capabilities........as long as I do all of the updating when prompted.

I'm sticking with Classic until it is dead and gone. At which point I hope I am living where there is wind and water in my front yard and I can just look out the window and decide if it is time to get on the water or not.